Has there ever been a week of hour-to-hour hyperventilating over the health status of a hockey player in D.C. the likes of which we’ve seen with Alexander Ovechkin here the past week? I think not.
This is unchartered territory for Washington’s hockey fans. The Russian Machine at long last has broken down. He seemed indestructable. Now we know he’s a physical mortal (somewhat), and deprived of his prowess we are not taking his absence well.
We are not getting any work done while worrying!
The updates (such as they are) arrive morning, noon, and night; at Capitals Insider; within all of the non-media hockey blogs (less so ours); on the sports television scroll; by the second seemingly on Twitter. It would be most interesting I think if somehow we could tally, in aggregated fashion, all of the refresh clicks on all of the outstanding online sources for Caps’ coverage in these parts the past seven days.
Most in these parts I believe understand the opague stat...
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